Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
ISBN: 0596527349
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 194
Pages: 194
Authors: Peter Morville, Louis Rosenfeld
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Part I: Introducing Information Architecture
- Chapter 1. Defining Information Architecture
- Section 1.1. A Definition
- Section 1.2. Tablets, Scrolls, Books, and Libraries
- Section 1.3. Explaining IA to Others
- Section 1.4. What Isn t Information Architecture?
- Section 1.5. Why Information Architecture Matters
- Section 1.6. Bringing Our Work to Life
- Chapter 2. Practicing Information Architecture
- Section 2.1. Do We Need Information Architects?
- Section 2.2. Who s Qualified to Practice Information Architecture?
- Section 2.3. Information Architecture Specialists
- Section 2.4. Practicing Information Architecture in the Real World
- Section 2.5. What Lies Ahead
- Chapter 3. User Needs and Behaviors
- Section 3.1. The Too-Simple Information Model
- Section 3.2. Information Needs
- Section 3.3. Information-Seeking Behaviors
- Section 3.4. Learning About Information Needs and Information-Seeking Behaviors
- Part II: Basic Principles of Information Architecture
- Chapter 4. The Anatomy of an Information Architecture
- Section 4.1. Visualizing Information Architecture
- Section 4.2. Information Architecture Components
- Chapter 5. Organization Systems
- Section 5.1. Challenges of Organizing Information
- Section 5.2. Organizing Web Sites and Intranets
- Section 5.3. Organization Schemes
- Section 5.4. Organization Structures
- Section 5.5. Social Classification
- Section 5.6. Creating Cohesive Organization Systems
- Chapter 6. Labeling Systems
- Section 6.1. Why You Should Care About Labeling
- Section 6.2. Varieties of Labels
- Section 6.3. Designing Labels
- Chapter 7. Navigation Systems
- Section 7.1. Types of Navigation Systems
- Section 7.2. Gray Matters
- Section 7.3. Browser Navigation Features
- Section 7.4. Building Context
- Section 7.5. Improving Flexibility
- Section 7.6. Embedded Navigation Systems
- Section 7.7. Supplemental Navigation Systems
- Section 7.8. Advanced Navigation Approaches
- Chapter 8. Search Systems
- Section 8.1. Does Your Site Need Search?
- Section 8.2. Search System Anatomy
- Section 8.3. Search Is Not an IT Thing
- Section 8.4. Choosing What to Search
- Section 8.5. Search Algorithms
- Section 8.6. Query Builders
- Section 8.7. Presenting Results
- Section 8.8. Designing the Search Interface
- Section 8.9. Where to Learn More
- Chapter 9. Thesauri, Controlled Vocabularies, and Metadata
- Section 9.1. Metadata
- Section 9.2. Controlled Vocabularies
- Section 9.3. Technical Lingo
- Section 9.4. A Thesaurus in Action
- Section 9.5. Types of Thesauri
- Section 9.6. Thesaurus Standards
- Section 9.7. Semantic Relationships
- Section 9.8. Preferred Terms
- Section 9.9. Polyhierarchy
- Section 9.10. Faceted Classification
- Part III: Process and Methodology
- Chapter 10. Research
- Section 10.1. Process Overview
- Section 10.2. A Research Framework
- Section 10.3. Context
- Section 10.4. Content
- Section 10.5. Users
- Section 10.6. Participant Definition and Recruiting
- Section 10.7. User Research Sessions
- Section 10.8. In Defense of Research
- Chapter 11. Strategy
- Section 11.1. What Is an Information Architecture Strategy?
- Section 11.2. Strategies Under Attack
- Section 11.3. From Research to Strategy
- Section 11.4. Developing the Strategy
- Section 11.5. Work Products and Deliverables
- Section 11.6. The Strategy Report
- Section 11.7. The Project Plan
- Section 11.8. Presentations
- Chapter 12. Design and Documentation
- Section 12.1. Guidelines for Diagramming an Information Architecture
- Section 12.2. Communicating Visually
- Section 12.3. Blueprints
- Section 12.4. Wireframes
- Section 12.5. Content Mapping and Inventory
- Section 12.6. Content Models
- Section 12.7. Controlled Vocabularies
- Section 12.8. Design Collaboration
- Section 12.9. Putting It All Together: Information Architecture Style Guides
- Part IV: Information Architecture in Practice
- Chapter 13. Education
- Section 13.1. Transition in Education
- Section 13.2. A World of Choice
- Section 13.3. But Do I Need a Degree?
- Section 13.4. The State of the Field
- Chapter 14. Ethics
- Section 14.1. Ethical Considerations
- Section 14.2. Shaping the Future
- Chapter 15. Building an Information Architecture Team
- Section 15.1. Destructive Acts of Creation
- Section 15.2. Fast and Slow Layers
- Section 15.3. Project Versus Program
- Section 15.4. Buy or Rent
- Section 15.5. Do We Really Need to Hire Professionals?
- Section 15.6. The Dream Team
- Chapter 16. Tools and Software
- Section 16.1. A Time of Change
- Section 16.2. Categories in Chaos
- Section 16.3. Questions to Ask
- Part V: Information Architecture in the Organization
- Chapter 17. Making the Case for Information Architecture
- Section 17.1. You Must Sell
- Section 17.2. The Two Kinds of People in the World
- Section 17.3. Running the Numbers
- Section 17.4. Talking to the Reactionaries
- Section 17.5. Other Case-Making Techniques
- Section 17.6. The Information Architecture Value Checklist
- Section 17.7. A Final Note
- Chapter 18. Business Strategy
- Section 18.1. The Origins of Strategy
- Section 18.2. Defining Business Strategy
- Section 18.3. Strategic Fit
- Section 18.4. Exposing Gaps in Business Strategy
- Section 18.5. One Best Way
- Section 18.6. Many Good Ways
- Section 18.7. Understanding Our Elephant
- Section 18.8. Competitive Advantage
- Section 18.9. The End of the Beginning
- Chapter 19. Information Architecture for the Enterprise
- Section 19.1. Information Architecture, Meet the Enterprise
- Section 19.2. What s the Goal of EIA?
- Section 19.3. Designing an Enterprise Information Architecture
- Section 19.4. EIA Strategy and Operations
- Section 19.5. Doing the Work and Paying the Bills
- Section 19.6. Timing Is Everything: A Phased Rollout
- Section 19.7. A Framework for Moving Forward
- Part VI: Case Studies
- Chapter 20. MSWeb: An Enterprise Intranet
- Section 20.1. Challenges for the User
- Section 20.2. Challenges for the Information Architect
- Section 20.3. We Like Taxonomies, Whatever They Are
- Section 20.4. Benefits to Users
- Section 20.5. What s Next
- Section 20.6. MSWeb s Achievement
- Chapter 21. evolt.org: An Online Community
- Section 21.1. evolt.org in a Nutshell
- Section 21.2. Architecting an Online Community
- Section 21.3. The Participation Economy
- Section 21.4. How Information Architecture Fits In
- Section 21.5. The Un-Information Architecture
- Appendix 1. Essential Resources
- Section A.1. Communities
- Section A.2. Directories
- Section A.3. Books and Journals
- Section A.4. Formal Education
- Section A.5. Conferences and Events
- Section A.6. Examples, Deliverables, and Tools
- Colophon
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Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
ISBN: 0596527349
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 194
Pages: 194
Authors: Peter Morville, Louis Rosenfeld